Combined vegetable parer, slicer, &amp;c.



H. C, HEFFNER.

COMBINED VEGETABLE PARER, SLICER, &c. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3. 1911.

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HENRY G. HEFFNEB, F BRADFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED VEGETABLE PABER, SLICER, 8w.

Application filed January 3, 1817.

To aZZ 207mm may concern:

Be it snown that l. HENRY CLAY Hurrrrrn, a citizen of the United States residing at Bradford, in the county of McKean and same.

The object of this invention is the proon of a simple, cheap, and eilicient imor iealine; slicing" or scraping" implement being of such ion the same can be stamped a le piece oi metal. biects will appear and be better 2 d from that embodiment of my inwhich the following is a speci- 1911 reference being had'to the accompanying drawing forming a part tl ereoi in which:

Figure 1 9 is a transverse lenient is top plan view thereofl and is bottom plan view of the imin detail, whereer nce numerals designate corr-;s throughout the several 1 lement is shown as consisting of a piat 7 which is of curved or arcuate shape. Stamped or struci: from the plate 1, adjacent respectively. the opposite side edges thereoi is a slicing blade 2 and a paring blade 3. he blades 2 and 3 underlie, in spaced relation, the COQVQXQCl side or face of the plate, and each has the longitudinal edges thereof beveled to provide cutting edges. The paring blade 3 lies nearer the plate 1 than the blade 2, so as to prevent the blade 3 cutting too deep into the vegetable during the paring operation. An arcuateshaped retaining element 4 is struck up from the concaved face of the plate 1, and

provides a loop for receiving, preferably,

respond im views, t e 1 e Specification of Letters Eaten Patented Feb 8, 1921.

Serial No. 140,433.

the middle finger of the hand of the operator. The forward edge of the plate 1 s Z'PVlflQCl with a depending flange 5, which its lower edge sharpened, and the said 0 provides a scraper for scraping the vegetable utter the same has been pared, or

in; the skins from potatoes.

one the ends of that edge of the plate 1 that h s the scraper 5 termed thereon, is provided with a polnted finger 6 adapted to e e1 iployed for removing the co of fruit 1 h seen that have provided a simple and in nsive implement that will admit of ts or vegetables being pared or swaped, .d sliced in a convenient and expeditious nner. llavingthus described invention what i claim as new, is:

A vegetable parer and slicer comprising a metallic sheet having approximately parallel side c: as, a section of the sheet at the intern ediate portion thereof being struck up from the body oi the sheet and disposed transversely thereof and adapted to serve as ahandle. sections of the sheet beyond the ends of the said handle section being struck up li'roin th sheet and disposed at the opposite i ace thereof from-that face at which the handle section is disposed, the last mentio ed sections adapted to serve as cutting blades one of the last mentioned sections having its intermediate portion spaced from the adjacent surface of the sheet for a dis tance greater than the intermediate portion of the other of the last mentioned sections the sheet being curved and the said curvature extending longitudinally of the handle section and transversely'of the blade sec- 

